Editorial

A lot of mixed economic news is floating around. Recent issues of Transport Topics and any other business publications can each give you a half-dozen reasons to cringe and be afraid, while there is an almost equal number of reasons to smile and be happy.

Modern American business is a blizzard of numbers. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it, the business school mantra goes.    

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is debating aviation policy in the form of the Aviation Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization Act, or AIRR Act, and a sliver of the 273-page bill concerns trucking.

Last May, speaking at a welcome dinner as part of a global ocean race, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo urged those in attendance to take away two important points from the event.

It has been anything but business as usual along the Eastern Seaboard the past few weeks.

It’s time to wonder if crude oil, diesel fuel and gasoline are actually getting too cheap? A surprising notion, but for many people it’s already the case.

Safety within the trucking industry continues to improve.

No sooner than we ripped the plastic off our 2016 calendars came yet more news about the connection between the federal government and trucking.

So often, what appears at first glance to be mind-numbing statistical minutiae is actually a matter of genuine importance with significant real-world consequences.

The year is not coasting to a quiet conclusion.